Children of Paradise (84 page)

youth organization of,
32

Mokhtari, Mohammad (poet)

murder of,
170
–72,
174
–75,
178
,
183

Rafizadeh and,
169

writings of,
165

monarchy,
216
–17

Montazeri, Hossein Ali (ayatollah),
38

1997 lecture in Qom,
159
–62

death of,
434

death of son of,
100

defending human rights,
93

on election of 2009,
433

foreign policy of,
93

house arrest of,
161
,
252

on justice,
433
–34

on Kahrizak,
433

as Khomeini’s heir designate,
94
,
98
,
101

opposing executions,
99
–100

as prison warden,
93

on students,
202

Montazeri, Javad (photojournalist),
370
–78,
384
,
387
,
388
,
397
,
406
,
416
,
418
,
458

Moore, Barrington,
144

morality,
37
,
115
,
121

morality police,
399
,
433

Mortazavi, Saeed (prosecutor)

Ahmadinejad and,
335

bloggers and,
303
–8

characteristics of,
235
–36

confession letters and,
299
–300

Kahrizak detentions and,
432
,
461

Kazemi’s death and,
235
–40

Mirebrahimi and,
241
–42,
255
–57,
280
,
300

Solmaz Sharif and,
285
–88,
291
–92

“velvet coup” trials and,
440

Mosharekat-e Iran-e Islami (reformist party)

banned, 464

election of 2008 and,
351

Moin as 2005 candidate for,
330
–31,
387

Tehran City Council elections and,
224
–25

“velvet coup” plot and,
442

Mossad,
444

Mossadegh, Mohammad (prime minister)

Bazargan and,
36

CIA-supported coup against,
11

nationalist followers of,
31

Motahhari, Morteza (ayatollah)

founding Hosseiniyeh Ershad,
16
–17

Soroush and,
59
,
68

Motalefeh (bazaar merchants’ society),
155

Mothers for Peace,
427

Mourning Mothers,
454
–55

Mousavi, Mir Hossein (prime minister)

as architect and editor,
85
,
353

as Beheshti’s protégé,
83
,
85

characteristics of,
85
–86,
355

at demonstrations in 2009,
414
,
416
–17

in election of 2009,
352
–55,
405
–6

election results of 2009 challenged by,
412
–14,
421
–23

as foreign minister,
85
–86

house arrest of,
448
–49, 464

Islamic Left and,
83
–84

on Islamic Republic,
422
–23,
446
–47

Khamenei and,
421
–22

Khomeini and,
85
,
446
–47

nephew murdered,
434

as presidential candidate in 1997,
148

as prime minister,
83
,
99
,
100
,
103

as reformist,
86

on resistance,
448

support for,
406
–8

“velvet coup” and,
438
–39

on violence,
426

Muslim Brotherhood,
84

Mutazilites (rationalist philosophers),
115
–16

“My Idols” (Shariati),
13

mysticism,
53
,
59
,
116

Nabavi, Behzad (parliamentary deputy)

and Memarian’s confession about,
283

Solmaz Sharif and,
287
,
288

targeted in bloggers’ case,
279
,
372

Nabavi, Ebrahim (satirist),
300
–302

Najaf (Iraq), seminary at,
8
,
15
,
29

Nategh-Nouri, Ali Akbar (speaker of parliament)

in election of 1997,
148
,
156
–58,
191
–92,
341
,
370

National Liberation Army of Iran,
94
–95,
98
–99

National Security Council (Iran), 374

nationalists

Bazargan and,
35
–36

Farouhars as,
169
–70

as intermediaries,
31

Khomeini and,
31

Kurdish,
44

Mohammadi brothers and,
199
–200

Mossadegh and,
11
,
31

opposing shah,
11

Shariati as,
12
,
14

nationalization

of foreign trade,
86

of oil industry,
11
,
36

Nazism,
65

networks

activists’,
389
,
396
,
403
,
427

alleged CIA,
279

of hard-liners,
161
,
206
,
237
,
320

in “The Spider’s House,”
279

in “velvet coup” plot,
436
–39,
441
–42

News of a Kidnapping
(García Márquez),
449

newspapers

Amirentezam trial in,
49

of hard-liners,
123
,
132

licenses for,
130
,
193

Mortazavi closing down,
235
–36,
241
–42

See also names of individual newspapers

nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
269
–70,
325
,
436
,
442

Nouri, Abdollah (interior minister),
370
–72, 374–75

nuclear program,
462

oil industry

dependence on,
220
,
349

falling prices in,
83

nationalization of,
11
,
36

oil stabilization fund,
339
–40

On Revolution
(Arendt),
109

One Million Signatures campaign,
395
,
411
,
438

Open Society and Its Enemies, The
(Popper),
64
,
76

Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza (shah)

as fugitive,
39

reign of,
10
–11

SAVAK and,
17

in United States,
39

See also
shah

Pahlavi, Reza (son of shah),
279
–80

parliament

election of 1992,
132

election of 1996,
147